We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high …

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing …

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region … outsourcing across countries. We discuss some possible reasons for these differences based on labor market institutions …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …